Random thoughts and observations
I received an email from my web host Site5 while I was at the cricket on Tuesday, saying this site had been suspended because it was using too many system resources (CPU and memory) for shared hosting.
“Your account is consuming about 10.66% of CPU resources on a shared server, which is not a fair share. We had no choice but to block the web access of following script to stabilize the server,” the message said.
At some stage during July, my internet fax and voicemail provider mBox sold out to eFax. I’ve searched my inbox and can’t see any record of correspondence advising me of this. I had been an mBox customer since February 2004. I received a fax from mBox on July 8. The next one on July 23 [...]
It’s a long time since I looked at an online image editor. With Photoshop CS3, who needs them? Well, they can actually be quite handy for editing pictures grabbed from the web. I’ve been using Pixlr for just that purpose lately and I’ve been most impressed. Pixlr is a flash-based editor with all the tools [...]
There has been a lot of discussion about newspapers charging for online content, but not much has been said about bloggers doing the same. A company called Fraxion Payments has now made it possible for bloggers to charge as little as one cent per article. “Creators of quality content can now charge for their work,” [...]
South Australians will face online commenting restrictions when writs are issued for the March 20 State Election. The Advertiser revealed today that a new law came into force on January 6, requiring internet bloggers, and anyone making a comment on next month’s state election, to publish their real name and postcode when commenting on the [...]
